Suu Kyi splits party into cells for ‘peaceful revolution’ in Burma

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National League for Democracy members are to work in linked local groupsKHIN MAUNG WIN / AP

Kenneth DenbyRangoon

Last updated at 3:32PM, November 16 2010

Aung San Suu Kyi is preparing to reinvent Burma’s democracy movement after what she regards as the inevitable suppression of her political party by the country’s military Government, The Times has learnt.

The democracy leader has instructed key aides to reorganise the National League for Democracy (NLD) into a linked series of local cells to carry out a “peaceful revolution” in Burmese politics.

She also intends to embark on a tour of the country in the next few weeks in an effort to rekindle peaceful opposition to the Government, three years after the suppression of mass demonstrations by Buddhist monks